DISCOS- Current Status and Future Developments

We present ESA’s Database and Information System Characterizing Objects in Space (DISCOS). DISCOS not only plays an essential role in the colli sion avoidance and re-entry prediction services provided by ESA’s Space Debris Off ice, it is also providing input to numerous and very differently scoped engineering activities, within ESA and throughout industry. We introduce the central functionalities of DISCOS, present the available reporting capabiliti es, and describe selected data modelling features. Finally, we revisit the developments of the recent years and take a sneak preview of the on-going replacement of DISCOS web front-end.